Sam Safford
- Graduate Student
- Department of Sociology
- B.A. Economics, California State University, Los Angeles
- M.A. Economics, San Diego State University
- Berkey Hall
- 509 E. Circle Drive Room 316
- East Lansing, MI 48824
- safford5@msu.edu
BIOGRAPHY
My research agenda focuses on the intersection of gender, knowledge, power, political sociology, and inequality. In particular, I am interested in how social power is utilized by individuals and institutions to shape knowledge, and how said knowledge subsequently reinforces social hierarchies. Specifically, I seek to examine how (trans)gender identities are defined and enforced by social actors and what roles varying social actors play in marginalizing trans identities and bodies across contexts.